Marc Schifalacqua, a Clark County prosecutor, has put plenty of pimps behind bars for pandering girls and women. He’s the first to say that Las Vegas is one big revolving door for pimps who commonly receive light sentences even if they abuse prostitutes or pander minors.
The lawyer for former Nevada Assemblyman Steven Brooks, charged in a car chase and a police confrontation in California, asked a judge Teusday that his client be enrolled in a court program that will push him into mental health treatment.
Nevada Senate Republicans on Wednesday announced their Education Priority Initiative to tax gold and silver mining to fund education, which they said will serve as a competing measure to the flawed teacher-backed margins tax that will be on the ballot in 2014.
The estimated cost for UNLV’s proposed domed, 60,000-seat stadium is $548.4 million — the biggest chunk of the university’s $900 million stadium project, the Review-Journal has learned.
Clark County motorists could end up paying nearly 10 cents more for each gallon of gas in a few years if the Legislature gives the County Commission power to boost its fuel taxes.
Three people, including a former state lawmaker, are seeking ousted Assemblyman Steven Brooks’ old job.
More than half the state and locally maintained roads in Nevada are in poor or mediocre shape, according to a new report from a Washington, D.C., based research group.
Clark County commissioners disagree about how quickly to move forward on appointing a replacement for Steven Brooks, who was expelled from the Assembly on Thursday.
A proposal downtown Las Vegas boosters view as a no-brainer still faces plenty of skepticism in the Legislature and even at City Hall.
Four members of the Nevada Legislature have signed a letter to U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood to back the XpressWest bullet train from Las Vegas to Victorville, Calif.
